SMASHED BY THE SEA.
We had weathered the western i:
lands and entered latitudes where the
prudent mariner shortens sail aud
keeps a wary eye on the baroweter.
for the seasfurer may talk lightly of
mountainous seas off the Horn, but not
of a winter gale in the wouth of the
English channel when the coast is
strewn with wreckage from the Lizard
to Beachy and his imagination, accus-
tomed to vast expanses of lonely sea.
pictures ail sorts of craft jostling one
another in dangerous proximity.
A favoring gale from the northwest,
not wore viclous than the ordinary
north Atlantic gale, had kept the ship
lively ai day and set all hands figur
ing on pay day. It was not until the
afternoon wateh that the weather cin
look becnme really threa.caingz, Moun-
tainous walls of green wailer swung
out of the darkness and buffeted her
aside as they passed. Fierce squalls
smote her in rapid succession, envelop
ing her in a smother of spray, heeling
her until the yardarms dipped in the
crests of the waves.
At eight bells the wind lulled and
hauled a point to the westward, then
hurled itself against the ship with ae-
cumulated fury. There was a sudden
confusion of fiying cordage, over-
whelming seas hammering upon the
decks and the cannonade of canvas
stripped from the spars and blown like
thistiedown to leeward,
Relieved of her top hamper, she stas-
gered crect, dripping like a half {ide
rock aud shaken with the shock of the
seas pounding her sides. Halfway ou
the upward oscillation she poised,
checked by the renewed onslaught of
the gale as if by the impact of a mate-
rial obstacle. Rags of canvas streain-
ed from ber empty yards, Every wire
of her rigging twanged and stretched
under the strain,
The deck round the mainmast heav-
ed and was starred with white fissures
running along its well oiled planks.
The heavy steel spar dimpled on one
side, then buckled and crashed over
board in a tangle of wreckage.
The ends of severed wire whipped
the air, aud twisted shrouds sawed to
and fro along the ruined bulwarks and
struck showors of sparks from the tor-
tured iron work. The hatch covers
were stripped from their coverings,
boats smashed to firewood and all the
intricate superstructure of the vessel
swept and broken. Shouted orders
were blown back, inaudible to the men
cowering under the break of the poop,
and useless if audible.
What seamanship could contrive was
done. Mean worked for their lives, find-
ing an footheld on the sea swept deck,
hacking the jagged cuds of iron wire.
But the day of cutting wreckage adrift
is gone with wooden spars and hemp- |
en cordage. Although the plates gaped |
and rivets started, the heavy spar held
fast alongside, pounding against the
fron hull as she rolled In that trough:
of the sen.
A couple of spare spars were lashed
together aml lnunched with infinite
danger through the gap in the broken
bulwarks. But no Improvised sea an-
chor could hold her to windward amid
the (winuit of such a sca. She was
ne lopger a ship, but a ruiged fabric, |
erushed and sagging to leeward under
the weight cf the elements,
Moruiug brought an abatement of
the fury of the gale. Standing on the
poop, surveyinz ber shattered hulk,
her skipper turned quietly to his mate
and asked. “Is the port lifeboat sea-
worthy 7 :
“Carpenter reports that it is, sir,” re
plied his subordinate,
The skipper steod for awhile fn =i
lence. noting the sluggish life of the
deck under his feet. “Suppose we've
got to leave her,” he said. “What d'ye
think?"
It is the sole occasion where the ivae-
ter mariner will deign to consult and
be advised by his inferior otlicer.
“She can't float much longer, sir”
replied tiie other sympathetically. It
might be that in his time he, too,
would require to seek similar advice.
“Al,” said the skipper heavily, “and
4 saw her Liuoched.” He crossed over
to the teak iife rail and laid his hand
on #, fondling it alfectionately, “A!
right, inister.” he said at last, “We're
right in the track of shipping. Pua
the word along to put a bag of bis: ul
aboard and fill the breakers with wa.
der.”—all Mall Gazette,
Short and to the Point.
‘One of the shortest speeches record
ed fn forensic annals is that of Tann-
ton, afterward a judge. Charles Phi!
ips, an Irish orator, had made a flo.
ery speech In an assault case.
Taunton, who was for the defend
ant, said in reply, “My friend's elo
quent complaint amounts, in plain
English, to this—that his client has re
ceived a good, sound horsewhipping—
and my defense is as short—that he
richly deserved it.”
The Boy and the Bear.
“Have you ever heard the story of
Algy and the bear?” asked a boy of his
father. “It's very short. ‘Algy met a
bear; the bear was bulgy; the bulge
was Algy.’"—London News.
1 do not know of any way 80 sure of
making others happy as being so one
self. —8ir Arthur Helps,
Confidence.
Mr. Golding—So yon want to marry
my daughter. Do you think that you
- support her in the style to which
she has been accustomed? Jack Win-
some—No, sir, but I can support her in
a good deal better style than you lived
in the first five years after you were
Journal,
‘married. Somerville
Rapid Wing Movement Does Not Al.
ways Imply Speed.
Birds have different modes of flight,
just ax men have different gaits ia
walking or running. Japid wing
movement does not always imply
speed in flight any mere than rapid
leg movement implies speed in walk-
jog or running. With us it is the
length of the stride that tells ultimate.
ly. What, apart from wing movement,
tells in the bird's flight is not known.
Speaking broadly, toug winged birds
are strong and swift fliers; short
winged birds are feeble in flight.
When we consider that a cumbrous,
slow moving bird like the heron moves
its wings twice per second when in
flight it is evident that many birds
have a very rapid wing movement.
Most sinall birds have this rapid
wing movement with feeble powers
of flight. The common wren and the
dipper, for instance, have a flight like
that of a young bird.
Many of our smaller migrants seem
but to flit from bush to bush or from
tree to tree. Members of the thrush
family are low fliers, the blackbird in
particuiar, with its hasty, hurried
flight, often just avoiding fences and
no more. Wagtails have a beautiful
undulating flight with little apparent
use of their wings, They look like
greyhounds bounding through the air.
Nearly all birds sail or float occa-
sionally without the slightest move-
ment of their wings. Even a large
bird like a pheasant will glide in this
way for more than two hundred yards.
Grouse have a rapid wing motion
without any great speed, but when
they sail, coming down with the wind,
as they prefer to do, they go very fast.
Before alighting they flap their wings
several times very rapidly, like the
clapping of hands. Most birds after
gliding do this. Does it correspond to
putting on the brakes or reversing the
engine in the case of mechanical loco-
motion? With little apparent use of
its wings the wood pigeon flies very
strongly and rapidly. It never seems
to “bring up” much before alighting.
but crashes into a tree at full speed.
When it rises its wings crack like
pistol shots.
Ducks are strong on the wing and
often fly in single file. Geese will fly
wedge or arrowhead shape, generally
at a considerable height. So do many
gulls and other sea birds, in a stately,
measured fashion, their calls occa-
sionally sounding like “Left, right,
left, right.
Kestrels have a beautiful, clean cut,
clipping motion of their wings and
look like yachts sailing through the
alr, while their hovering in the air is
one of the mysteries of bird life.
Peesweeps, which are so graceful in
their motions on the ground, look like
enormous bats when in flight, Swal-
lows and in a very marked degree
swifts have rapid wing movement
with great speed and extraordinary
| power of flight. Scotsman,
—— —
One Coid Saved.
Logic is logic, whether it touches the
affairs of nations or a cold in the
| head. The conviction, says London
Tit-Bits, was forced upon a Liverpool
woman whose coachman, although he
had been ill for several days, appeared
one morning with his hair closely crop-
ped.
| “Why, Dennis,” sald the mistress,
“whatever possessed you to have your
hair cut while you had such a bad
cold?"
“Well, mum,” replied the unabashed
Dennis, “I do be takin’ notice this long
while that whiniver | have me hair
cut I take a bad cowld, so 1 thought
to meself that now, while 1 had the
cowld on to me, it would be the time
of all others to go and get me hair cut-
tin’ done, for by that course 1 would
save meself just one cowld. Do you
see the power of me reasonin’, mum?’
Littlest Father.
The woman who came to clean up
was telling how she left her boy to
take care of the baby. The boy was
two and one-half years old. The baby
was six months.
“That's the youngest little father I
ever heard of,” said the flat dweller
she was cleaning up for. “Do you
lock them in?”
“Yes,” said the cleaning woman.
“Poor little fellow!” said the flat
dweller, “Locked in to burn in case
of fire! Some day when you are
cleaning up for we 1 want to go over
and see that little father, who ought
to be in the cradle himself, taking
care of the six-month-old baby. |
want to just sit there and look on
awhile, Poor little fellow! —Chicago
Inter Ocean,
What Accountancy Means.
Accountancy is not and never can
be a matter of abstract knowledge to
be transferred by means of lectures,
but is the art of knowing how to ap-
ply that knowledge to the require-
ments of business under very varying
An Easier Dose.
Johuny—The medicine ain’t so nasty
as it useter be, mommer. I'm gettin’
used to it. Mommer—Do you take a
whole spoonful every hour? Johnny-
No'm; I couldn't find a spoon, £0 I'm
usin’ a fork.~Cleveland Teader,
The Advice a Discerning Woman Gave
Unto Her Daughter.
My daughter, wouldst thou know a
man's secret? Go to the florist, then,
O simple one, for in him every man
reposeth his confidence.
Yea, by the flowers which he sendeth
a woman shall ye judge the quality
of a man's love, likewise the quantity
and exact stage.
A= violets pass unto roses, and roses
unto cheap carnations, and carnations
unto naught, so passeth his grand pas-
sion from the first throes into matri-
mony.
Lo, at the beginning of a love affair
mark with what care a man selecteth
his flowers in person, that not a wilted
violet shall offend thine eyes!
Yet as time passeth he telephoneth
his orders and leaveth it all to the
clerk. And there cometh a day when
he murmureth wearily, “I say, old
chap, make that a standing order. will
you?”
Then the florist heaveth a sigh, for
he knoweth that the end is at hand.
Yea, this is the mark of an engaged
man who doeth his duty. So after the
wedding bouquets all orders shall
cease together, and until he seeketh
flowers for his wife's grave that man
shall not again enter a florist’s shop.
For stale carnations, bought upon
the street corner and carried home in
a paper bag. are a fit offering for any
wife. Yet a funeral rejoiceth the flor-
ist’s heart and maketh him to smile,
for he knoweth that a widower's next
order shall be worthy of a new cause
and the game shall begin all over
again.
Verily, verily, my daughter, 1 charge
thee, account no man in love until he
hath gone forth into the gardens and
the fields and plucked thee a few dinky
pansies or stray weeds with his own
hands.
For when a man sendeth thee violets
it may mean only sentiment, and when
he sendeth thee orchids it may be only
a bluff, but when he doeth real work
for any woman !f meaneth business,
Selah!- London Ti-Bits.
The English Thicf That Dropped In to
See His Lawyer.
Here is a story of a genuine instance
of the kind of business which fell to
the lot of 21 once notorious Londoa
“thieves' counsel.” One day a thick-
set man, with a cropped poll of un-
mistakably Newgate cut, slunk into
this counsel's room, when the follow
Ing dialogue took place:
“Morning, sir,” said the man, touch-
ing his forelock.
“Morning.” sald the counsel.
do you want?"
“Well, sir, I'm sorry to say, sir, our
little Ben. sir, has 'ad a misfortin,
Fust offense, sir, only a wipe.”
“Well, well!” interrupted the coun-
sel. “Get on"-—
“So, sir, we thought as you'd ‘ad all
the family business we'd like you to
defend him, sir.”
“All right.” said the counsel;
my clerk”
“Yes, sir,” continued the thief, “but
1 thought I'd like to make sure you'd
attend yourself, sir. We're anxious
cos it's little Ben, our youngest kid.”
“Oh, that will be all right! Give
Simmons the fee.”
“Well, sir,” continued the man, shift-
ing about uucomfortably, “I was go-
ing to arst you, sir, to take a little
less. You see, sir’—wheedlingly—“it's
little Ben—his first misfortin”—
“No, no!” said the counsel impa-
tiently. “Clear out!”
“But, sir, you've had all our busi-
ness, Well, sir, if you won't you
won't, so I'll pay you now, sir.” And
as he doled out the guineas, “lI may
as well tell you, sir. you wouldn't 'a’
got the counters if I hadn't had a little
bit of luck on the way."—From “The
Recollections of a K. (.,” by Thomas
Edward Crispe.
“What
“see
Funny For Her.
A New England iad was intently
watching his aunt in the process of
making ples and cake. He seemed
very much inclined to start a conver
sation, an i clination, however, which
the aunt in no way encouraged. She
continued in silence to assemble the
ingredients of a mammoth cake.
“Tell me something funny, auntie.”
finally ventured the boy.
“Don’t bother me. Tommy,” sald the
aunt. “How can I when I am making
cake?”
“Oh, you might say, ‘Tommy, have a
piece of the pie I've just made,’ That
would be funny for you."—Exchange.
Habit Enables Him to Scale lce Clad
Heights With Ease.
“In all my experience 1 had never
encountered a rougher. more difficult
country in which to hunt than in
Ellesmere Land,” writes Harry Whit-
ney in Outing. “Ordinarily 1 should
have believed these mountain sides,
with walls of smooch rock sheathed
with a crust of hard ice and snow,
quite unsecalable.
“In places they were almost perpen-
dicular. Rarely did they offer a crev-
ice to serve as foot or hand hold, and
jutting points and firm set bowlders
were too widely scattered to be of
much help.
“In this his native land the Eskimo
has a decided advantage over the
white hunter. His lifetime of experi-
ence has taught him to scale these
fce clad heights with a nimbleness and
ease that are astounding. He is quite
fearless, and even the mountain sheep
is not his superior as a climber.
“As If by magic and with little ap-
parent effort the two Eskimos tlew up
the slippery walls, far outstripping
me. How they did it 1 shali never
know. Now and again I was forced
to cut steps in the ice or 1 should in-
evitally have lost my footing and
been hurled downward several hun-
dred feet to the rocks beneath.
“I was astonished even at my own
progress, and when I paused to glance
behind me I feit a momentary panic.
But there was no turning back, and
one look robbed me of any desire to
try it.
“The Eskimo has no conception of
distance, He i3 endowed with certain
artistic instincts which enable him to
draw a fairly good map of a coast
line with which he is thoroughly fa-
miliar, but he cannot tell you how far
it is from one point to another. Often
when Eskimos told me a place we were
bound for was very close at hand it
developed that we were far from ft.
This they are never sure of and can-
not indicate,
“The Eskimos have a white man
‘stung to death’ from every point of
view. They not only can go to sleep
promptly, but sleep soundly and well
as they travel when circumstances
permit. They get sustenance, too, by
eating hard frozen walrus and seal
meat or blubber., This I could never
do, for it is so strong in flavor that it
invariably nauseated me, though Idid
succeed very well with raw hare or
deer’s meat when I bad it.”
~The Century
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Yeas hoe So
Yeager took the Ladies Stockings off
his shelves last week and re-
duced them to 15c
Look! Look!
This week he is taking the Ladies
SHOES
off in the same way and reducing his
$3.00, $3.50 and $4.00 Lace Shoes to
$1.98.
Thing of it, $4.00 Shoes Reduced to
$1.98.
THIS WEEK ONLY
Ladies.
Yeager’s Shoe Store,
Bush Arcade Building, BELLEFONTE, PA.
LYON & CO.
By request of a great number of our
patrons we will continue our
White Sale
until next Monday, Feb. 28th.
New Spring opening of Dress Silks, Satin Foulards,
Messalines, Figured Pongees, Oyama Silks, from 40c.
per yard up. All the new colors.
The largest assortment of fine Dress Ginghams in
plaids, check, stripe and plain, frou 8 cents up,
A fine assortment of new Wool Fabrics for Coat
Suits and one-piece Dresses. Voiles in all colors and
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Linen in all the new colors in plain and stripe.
Dress Trimmings.—Everything that is new in Dress
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See our new Ruchings and Neckwear.
Carpets and Matting, Oil Cloth, Linoleums, Lace
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‘We do not have the space to tell you of all the new
things we have, but come in and see for yourselves.
‘Qur prices the lowest, qualities the best.
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